XVlll INTRODUCTION. 



Walter Fox, assistant in the Singapore Gardens, collected a 

 small number of plants in Muar, and Robert Derry, while in charge 

 of the Gardens and Forest Department in Malacca, obtained a large 

 collection of Malacca plants. Two Eurasian assistants in the 

 Forest Department, S. Goodenough and Holmberg, added many 

 specimens obtained during their forest work in Singapore and 

 Malacca. 



Lieut. H. J. Kelsall (now Lieut. -Col., D.S.O.) made an im- 

 portant collection in an expedition from the east to the west coast 

 of Johor in company with Harry Lake in 1897, and also collected 

 on Bukit Hitam in Selangor. 



Alfred Dent Machado, miner and planter, sent plants from 

 Legeh, Kwala Lipis, and Kamuning, in Perak. He died in .1910. 

 Borassus Machado7iis is named after him. 



E. Rostado sent the only plants known from Tringganu. 



Sir Walter Napier, Attorney-General, obtained specimens 

 from Negri Sembilan, including Webera Napieri. 



Warren D. Barnes made a collection on K'luang Terbang in 

 Pahang in 1900. He died in Hongkong in 191 1. 



Dr. John D. Gimlette sent a number of plants from Kota 

 Bharu and Kwala Lebir in Kelantan, and pubhshed a useful book 

 on Malay poisons and charm-cures, 1915, besides other works on 

 local diseases and materia medica. 



Alfred M. Burn-Murdoch, born 1868, was Conservator of 

 Forests in the Malay Peninsula from 1904 till his death in Selangor 

 in March, 1914. He collected a certain number of plants and 

 published two numbers of " Trees and Timbers of the Malay 

 Peninsula," 1911-1912. His name is associated with Alpinia 

 Murdochii. 



Mohammed Haniff, overseer in the Penang Gardens from 1892 

 and in complete charge of them from 1912. He collected plants in 

 Penang and also in Lankawi, Kedah, and on Gunong Kerbau in 

 Perak, and has made many valuable additions to our knowledge of 

 the flora. 



Herbert C. Robinson, director of the Federated Malay States 

 Museums from 1903, and Mr. Charles Boden Kloss did in- 

 valuable work in their explorations of the mountains of the 

 peninsula. Mr. Robinson was the first man to ascend Gunong 

 Tahan in Pahang, the highest mountain in the peninsula, bringing 

 down with him the first collection of plants made above the altitude 

 of 6000 feet. He and Mr. Kloss also collected plants on the moun- 

 tains of Perak, Selangor, and Kedah, and in Lankawi islands and 

 other places. Without these two collectors we should have known 

 but little of the highland flora of the peninsula. I had the pleasure 

 of accompanying them on several of their explorations, notably to 

 Telom and Temengoh, Gunong Tahan, and Pulau Adang. Accounts 

 of their botanical collections are published in the Journals of the 



